Nick Miroff

U.S. Mayor, police chief charged with smuggling guns to Mexico
Monday, March 14, 2011 - 00:00
Drug gangsters in northern Mexico looking for high-powered weapons have benefited from some well-placed American suppliers lately, U.S. prosecutors say.
Mexico's drug war intrudes on Monterrey, a booming metropolis
Friday, March 11, 2011 - 00:00
The same qualities that made Monterrey appealing to investors - good schools, exclusive neighborhoods, upscale restaurants - made it attractive to bosses of the Gulf cartel and its main rival, Los Zetas.
As kidnappings for ransom surge in Mexico, victims' families and employers turn to private U.S. firms instead of law enforcement
Monday, February 28, 2011 - 00:00
As kidnappings soar in Mexico, U.S. companies and well-to-do Mexican families are turning to private American firms to rescue their loved ones and employees from brutal criminal gangs.
Mexican drug cartels draws Guatemalan army to jungles where it fought civil war
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 00:00
So serious is the perceived threat to national security that Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has extended "a state of siege" and martial law in his country's Alta Verapaz province.
Mexican prisons failing to keep drug traffickers on the inside
Friday, February 4, 2011 - 00:00
Hundreds of dangerous inmates have escaped from state penitentiaries along the U.S. border in recent months, some through spectacular action-movie breakouts, others by simply walking out the door.
For National Guard, a new mission along the border
Wednesday, January 5, 2011 - 00:00
Worsening cartel violence in Mexico and several high-profile killings on the U.S. side have raised calls for more National Guardsmen along the border, even though illegal immigration and crime in the region have declined.
Mexico's marines team with U.S. DEA
Monday, December 6, 2010 - 00:00
The U.S. government is turning to elite units of Mexican marines to go after drug cartel bosses in aggressive "capture or kill" missions.
La urgencia de cambiar el modelo para salvarlo
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 00:00
Desde que hizo su sorpresivo comentario de que "el modelo cubano ya ni siquiera funciona para los cubanos", Fidel Castro ha tratado de retractarse y de impedir que la afirmacion se difunda rapidamente por Internet.
Racked by drug violence, Mexico wary of Calif. vote on legalizing marijuana
Friday, September 10, 2010 - 00:00
Mexican leaders are increasingly asking why their country should continue to attack cannabis traffickers and peasant pot farmers if the U.S. government is barely enforcing federal marijuana laws.
Drug gangs, smugglers in Mexico and U.S. are increasingly disguising couriers in phony uniforms
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 - 00:00
The traffickers have been caught hauling marijuana along the Texas border in fake versions of a Wal-Mart truck or FedEx van. They've employed sham school buses, dummy dump trucks and bogus ambulances.

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